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However, Buddha’s acceptance of a female monastic order and above all his unequivocal affirmation of their equality in intellectual and spiritual abilities in achieving the highest goals clearly establish a positive stance. The text is from this PDF https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1923&context=jiws In dhamma there is no gender discrimination, But there can have been early men in buddhism who did not want woman to learn, But Buddha never said no to teach woman

Can you find the sutta it says buddh did not let woman learn meditation? Some of his earliest followers was actually woman, In Theravada scriptures there are no such thing as Buddha did not teach woman

I did not mean you should let go of the money But to the attachments that money lead to. Ofcourse you do need money and i understand it can be difficult to earn enough.

I noticed you are worried about the money, often money can become an attachments like greed, worries, anger, even hate sometimes. This is attchments to the income that make you feel worried about your situation. I know it is not easy but if you can work on letting go of the attachments then you will feel less stressed, worried and greed. Often meditation help, but then you need to have a teacher to guide you in the beginning.

First of all, You can not get benefit from meditation in a quick way. Meditation is a "slow" prosess that if stressed to want a goal it does not work for you. Take step by step and learn all the aspect of the meditation you have chosen to do. Meditation is both for calming the mind but also to grow your inner wisdom about life it self. The best you can do in the beginning is talking with a meditation teacher or someone who have long experience within the chosen meditation form. Personally i do insight meditation (also called Vipassana)

For me as a Buddhist i study the suttas, But it is only the effort i put in that can lead me to the truth. No matter how many times i read the books, without actually cultivation (practice) i would be stuck in same place. Study the sutta and meditating is the main but also keeping the moral and understanding 4 noble truths and using the 8 folded path in daily life. But for each of us we will find different answer because we see the "path" in different ways. ( some will disagree with me here)

There has been negative episodes in life even the few last years, but i do not see them as negative. one example is when i was attacked on the street, Honestly i feel compassion for the person, He did hit me, but there is no need to hit back, only walk away. If someone screaming to me or get angry there is no need to scream or get angry back. But this tread is not about me so i will respect moderators request of not spaming other persons tread with my post about other then what OP is But i can answer PM

Few years ago. But you must understand that if negative emotion arise it means there is attachments to that situation, when you understand that it is you self that has the attachments to the situation you realise that there is no need to react negatively to any situation happening. Accept that the situation is there and be in the moment.

Insight meditation and Sitting meditation is no different What i mean is that when you have meditated for longer time, the mind become permanent silent, no thoughts arise so even when not sitting down to do meditation mind is silent. There are many different meditation practices, just sitting down is not meditation in it self. In the beginning when someone start meditate the brain go wild and thoughts come all the time, and because the person is silent the thoughts get louder. When you watch the thought and make a mental not how the thought made you feel, then let it go. Dont hold on to thoughts. meditation is observing not actively doing.

Yes it does. I do not need to sit down to do meditation. mind is silent. I practice insight meditation

Well i have meditated for 20 years and it does what is was teached would happen. mind is calm and peace in mind. no thoughts arise if not needed. And the spiritual knowledge arise

Vipassana/insight meditation has made the mind calm down to only thinking what is needed. No more mind going wild

You are very welcome

Focus your time on the spiritual path But it is not wrong to work to earn for living if needed, or maybe what you seeking is monkhood, being monastic?

Thank you

I know in my answer to many of you guys i use the term "letting go" but i never actually explained what it trully means, so just to clerify a little i found this short answer in www.Buddhanet.net and i found it to be really how i see i too, So here is the short answer to what letting go means, LETTING GO If we contemplate desires and listen to them, we are actually no longer attaching to them; we are just allowing them to be the way they are. Then we come to the realisation that the origin of suffering, desire, can be laid aside and let go of. How do you let go of things? This means you leave them as they are; it does not mean you annihilate them or throw them away. It is more like setting down and letting them be. Through the practice of letting go we realise that there is the origin of suffering, which is the attachment to desire, and we realise that we should let go of these three kinds of desire. Then we realise that we have let go of these desires; there is no longer any attachment to them. Hope this help a little.

Determination to study the teaching, meditation daily, following the guidelines, when doing this the result will come of it own. no need to force it. Technicly living the same way Buddha Shakyamuni did 2600 years ago when he got enlighten. Except for that i dont teach students in Buddhism

Determination

Cultivation are different from religion . Instead of only believing a teaching is true, one actually living the teaching and follow it as described. Example in Buddhism we have the teaching of 4 noble truth about suffering and the 8 folded path leading out of suffering. The truth of suffering (Dukkha) The truth of the origin of suffering (Samudāya) The truth of the cessation of suffering (Nirodha) The truth of the path to the cessation of suffering (Magga) And the 8 folded path Right understanding (Samma ditthi) Right thought (Samma sankappa) Right speech (Samma vaca) Right action (Samma kammanta) Right livelihood (Samma ajiva) Right effort (Samma vayama) Right mindfulness (Samma sati) Right concentration (Samma samadhi) In cultivation we not only follow the guidelines as described, but finding the answers to why it is this way. Why does this 8 guidelines lead to end of suffering, end of sickness, old age, greed, anger and so on, it is no longer a belief system, it is wisdom from within,

The monk robe? All Ordained Buddhist monks wear this for of robe

Thsi video explain the the suffering in life very good, and is a good way to see enlightenment

Letting go of attachments is only one part of the cultivation path. But without letting go of all attachments in human life, one can not gain understanding of the truth. Truth is that life in this realm is suffering because of the human attachments we gain during life in normal sosiety

If the internet is ending its not a big deal, we just need to go back to live with the nature like we did before internet was created.

Well i have been on the spiritual path for 20 years and still there is attachments to let go of before even thinking of anything near enlightenment, Btw to become enlighten you must let go of the urge to get toward enlightenment before you can gain enlightenment.

You will still be able to do things for your family, but then it comes from compassion not from human attachments